"Do you amuse yourself much here, Porthos ?" he asked, at last, very likely after he had found out what he was searching for.
"Not always." "I can imagine that; but when you get thoroughly bored, by-and-by, what do you intend to do ?" "Oh! I shall not be here for any length of time.

Aramis is waiting until the last bump on my head disappears, in order to present me to the king, who I am told cannot endure the sight of a bump." "Aramis is still in Paris, then ?" "No." "Whereabouts is he, then ?" "At Fontainebleau." "Alone ?" "With M.Fouquet." "Very good.

But do you happen to know one thing ?" "No, tell it me, and then I shall know." "Well, then, I think that Aramis is forgetting you." "Do you really think so ?" "Yes; for at Fontainebleau yonder, you must know, they are laughing, dancing, banqueting and drawing the corks of M.de Mazarin's wine in fine style.

Are you aware that they have a ballet every evening there ?" "The deuce they have!" "I assure you that your dear Aramis is forgetting you." "Well, that is not at all unlikely, and I have myself thought so sometimes." "Unless he is playing you a trick, the sly fellow!" "Oh!" "You know that Aramis is as sly as a fox." "Yes, but to play me a trick--" "Listen; in the first place, he puts you under a sort of sequestration." "He sequestrates me! Do you mean to say I am sequestrated ?" "I think so." "I wish you would have the goodness to prove that to me." "Nothing easier.

Do you ever go out ?" "Never." "Do you ever ride on horseback ?" "Never." "Are your friends allowed to come and see you ?" "Never." "Very well, then; never to go out, never to ride on horseback, never to be allowed to see your friends, that is called being sequestrated." "But why should Aramis sequestrate me ?" inquired Porthos.
"Come," said D'Artagnan, "be frank, Porthos." "As gold." "It was Aramis who drew the plan of the fortifications at Belle-Isle, was it not ?" Porthos colored as he said, "Yes; but that was all that he did." "Exactly, and my own opinion is that it was no very great affair after all." "That is mine, too." "Very good; I am delighted we are of the same opinion." "He never even came to Belle-Isle," said Porthos.
"There now, you see." "It was I who went to Vannes, as you may have seen." "Say, rather, as I did see.